Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU34956

Improper Privilege Management in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Application Server - CVE-2012-2312

Published: December 18, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU34956

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2312

CWE-ID: CWE-269

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.

An Elevated Privileges issue exists in JBoss AS 7 Community Release due to the improper implementation in the security context propagation, A threat gets reused from the thread pool that still retains the security context from the process last used, which lets a local user obtain elevated privileges.

Affected software

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
JBoss Application Server

How to mitigate CVE-2012-2312

Install update from vendor's website.

External References

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